Congratulations to Our 2024 Grand Prize and First Place Winners!
NETrolyze, a novel immunotherapy for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), was named the $25,000 grand prize winner at a live finalist round held November 15 in New York. The first-in-class therapeutic injectable gel prevents the spread of TNBC, one of the most aggressive cancer types, enabling patients to avoid toxic chemotherapy and expensive treatments – potentially transforming their lives. Click here for the full list of 2024 winners. Also see the Top 100 highest scoring entries.
Special thanks to our esteemed panel of judges.
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Since Tech Briefs magazine launched the Create the Future Design contest in 2002 to recognize and reward engineering innovation, over 15,000 design ideas have been submitted by engineers, students, and entrepreneurs in more than 100 countries. Join the innovators who dared to dream big by entering your ideas today.
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Special Report spotlights the eight top entries in 2023 as well as past winners whose ideas are now in the market, making a difference in the world.
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Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.
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The Issue:
Remote Island monitoring systems have not been used effectively in emerging countries. We got motivated to recycle and use old phones and tablets, used devices like computers by providing remote island monitoring facility to prevent havoc in case of hurricanes,
Introduction-
Cost effective solution for parking lot security using the app providing features to raise safety alarms and monitor using old devices.
The Issue-
Parking lot security systems have long been used in shopping malls and corporate offices in emerging countries. We got motivated to recycle and use old phones and tablets,
Secure Call Center-
Introduction-
Track the security of raw materials inbound and products outbound within the factory or office and directly call the associated teams.
TRAIN SCHEDULER
INTRODUCTION-
We are able to view the train schedule after selecting the station, view the routes between the stations by selecting the start and end destination, view the map, and know about the various geographical features of the place the train is crossing through like the rivers, forests, city names, visual map of the train routes.
INTRODUCTION-
Track Schedule and Information of Events, mobilize security ,threat prevention efforts by guests participation using ONVIF SDK.
THE ISSUE-
We have developed a variety of apps for event organizers in the past and always thought about how we could mobilize security and threat prevention using guest's participation.
Modern hand-held devices such as smart phones and PDAs have become increasingly powerful in recent years. As mobile devices become more like PCs they will come to replace objects we tend to carry around such as checkbooks, credit cards, cameras, planners, mp3 players, etc. In short, we will be using them to accomplish our daily tasks.
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is an organization dedicated to create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop (XO) with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. As community engineers associated with this unique proposition,
It is too hard to diagnose a patient who just arrived at a hospital. While diagnostic tests are carried by different people, at times the situation becomes life critical. And, most of the time the big picture about the patient is not clear to the doctors.
Background
Older toilets can use 3.5, 5, or even up to 7 gallons per flush (gpf). Toilets typically account for 30 percent of daily water consumption. The current US national standard is 1.6 gpf, while the California standard is 1.28 gpf.
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